Lake Umbagog, Maine.
1894
Sept. 10                
Pine Point.
  Cloudy most of the day with light, varying winds, from the
S.E. during the afternoon with light showers. Very warm.
  Last night was clear and Warblers were migrating in
great numbers between the hours of 8 and 10 P.M. It was
a little foggy at daylight this morning a fact which may
account for the finding, by Will Sargent, in the middle of the
Lake, to-day, of a Philadelphia Vireo floating dead, back-up.     
It doubtless became bewildered while attempting to cross the Lake
and flew about in circles until exhausted.
[margin]V. philadelphicus[/margin]
  There was a large mixed flock of Warblers on Pine Point
early this morning but I did not have time to follow them
and identified only some Yellow-rumps, a Black-throated Green,
a Parula Warbler, two Red-eyed Vireos (one a young bird
still fed by the parent but in nearly complete autumnal
plumage) several Chickadees & Kinglets (satrapa), a Canada
Nuthatch, a Black-billed Cuckoo, a Junco, a Flicker, a
Hairy Woodpecker and a [female] Banded Three-toed Woodpecker.
[margin]Large mixed
flock about
camp[/margin]
The last called at least fifty times in succession
uttering a note which varied so much in tone that
at first I thought it was made by P. arcticus, next
by Dryobates villosus, and last by D. pubescens. It
was not until I got my glass on the bird that
I felt sure of its identity, although I suspected that it
would prove to be P. americanus from the fact that
I have before compared the note of that species to
the notes of both P. arcticus & D. pubescens. After
calling a while this bird began drumming, making a long
continuous roll like a Downy's but louder I thought.
It had less white on the back than usual - a narrow
[?]dian line only. It kept high up in the spruces
and exhibited no peculiarities of attitude or motion.
[margin]Notes of
Picoides 
americanus[margin]